Ezra Pound

Book Review: Ezra Pound in “The Bughouse”

For all his literary fecundity, Ezra Loomis Pound was also more than a little bonkers.

Book Review: Last Night A Book Saved My Life or….What To Read, or Not

I asked the venerable progressive publisher New Directions to send me what it has done for literature lately.

Book Review: A Complicated Story — Noh Theater and Modernism

Carrie J. Preston refuses to characterize these cultural exchanges in moralistic or narrowly political terms.

Bill Marx September 19, 2020 at 3:10 pm on Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100Since we are on Lawrence, I would highly recommend looking at his essays and reviews as well -- he was...
Roberta Silman September 19, 2020 at 12:22 pm on Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100Hi, Gerry, I used "tarnished" to reflect how the book was received. People were shocked, not only by the sex...
Gerald Peary September 19, 2020 at 11:18 am on Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100A beautiful appreciation, so well written and so knowledgeable. I loved reading this piece. I have the tiniest question. When...
Clinton Smith September 18, 2020 at 10:37 pm on Arts Remembrance: Soul Iconoclast Roy CWent to many of his concerts he was loved by my whole family and right to this day I still...
Gerald Peary September 18, 2020 at 7:36 pm on Film Review: “The Irish Pub” — A Too Polite Homage to the Old-fashioned Gaelic tavernA very good point. I raise my glass to that!